Business
| Name | Class | Major | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Allison | 1971 | Business Administration | Chairman, BB&T Corporation/Branch Banking & Trust Co |
| Max C. Chapman | 1966 | Economics | Former president and CEO of Kidder, Peabody & Co |
| Warren Grice Elliott | 1867 | President of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | |
| David Gardner | 1988 | English | Co-founder of The Motley Fool |
| Peaches Golding | 1976 | Biology | High Sheriff of Bristol, England, 2010-11 |
| Bowman Gray, Sr. | 1890 | Did not graduate | Former President and Chairman of R.J. Reynolds |
| William B. Harrison, Jr. | 1966 | Economics | Former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase |
| George Watts Hill | 1922 / Grad. | Commerce / Law | Banker and philanthropist |
| John Sprunt Hill | 1889 | Philosophy | Banker and philanthropist |
| Walter E. Hussman, Jr. | 1969 | Journalism | Publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock |
| Richard "Dick" Jenrette | 1951 | Founder of the Wall Street firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Chairman and CEO of world insurance leader The Equitable from 1990 to 1996 | |
| William Johnson | Grad. | Law | President and CEO of Progress Energy |
| Paul Kolton | 1944 | Journalism | Chairman of the American Stock Exchange. |
| Sallie Krawcheck | 1987 | Journalism | Chairman and CEO of Citigroup Global Wealth Management and former CFO of Citigroup Inc. |
| Jason Kilar | 1993 | Journalism and Business Administration | CEO of Hulu |
| Howard R. Levine | 1981 | Business Administration | Chairman of the board and CEO of Family Dollar |
| Scott Livengood | 1974 | Industrial relations | Owner and CEO of Dewey's Bakers and former CEO of Krispy Kreme |
| Hugh McColl | 1957 | Business administration | Former CEO of Bank of America |
| John Medlin | 1956 | Business administration | Former CEO of Wachovia |
| Allen B. Morgan, Jr. | 1965 | History | Founder and former CEO of Morgan Keegan & Company |
| Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III | 1967 | Business administration | Finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign and a U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein |
| Julian Robertson | 1955 | Business administration | Founded the investment firm Tiger Management Corp. |
| Bill Ruger | 1940 | Did not graduate | Founded firearms manufacturer Sturm, Ruger |
| Pete Rummell | 1967 | Chemistry/English literature | Former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Imagineering and St. Joe Company |
| Marcus G. Smith | Did not graduate | Journalism | President and COO of Speedway Motorsports, Inc. |
| Ken Thompson | 1973 | American studies | Former Chairman and CEO of Wachovia |
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman’s life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.”
—Hortense Odlum (1892–?)
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“It doesn’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous.”
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